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The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
Selecting d Family Horse.

Among the good points to be noticed
in the selection of the family horse, do
cility and gentleness must lie kept well
in front. If the women and children are
to share in the use and care of the horse,
nothing vicious should be tolerated. If
sound and previously well cared for, a
horse eight, ten, or even twelve years old,
may be bought with no fear of disability
on account of old age. Mr.. John Russell,
who recently delivered series of lectures
in Boston on the care of the horse, said
that "old wine, old friends and old
horses"-and by that meaning those from
eight to fourteen-"should always be pre-
ferred to young ones The horse does
not come to maturity as early rs some
think, as the record Of the trotting horse
of America shows. A horse ten years
old, that has no defect of body or limb
is practically safe from the ordinary
horse diseases. So fa~ as outward ap-
pearance, color, ETC., are concerned, no
general directions can be given, but if the
buyer is inexperienced, it is better to 90
to some reliable dealer, stating what is
desired and the amount of money to be
given. An honest horse jockey in some
peoples minds is an anomaly, but many
such may be found. american Agricui-
tuTiSt
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
Strange Extremes of Heat and Cold.

Northeast Siberia possesses a climate
colder than the North Pole and hotter
than many uplands under the Equator :;
but the torrid heat lasts only for few
weeks, while the intense cold endures
for many months. In the volcanic PENN
sula of Kamchatka, says writer in the
London Telegraph, the banks of the in
land streams are clothed with grass grow
ing with tropical luxuriancc and spangled
with gay fowers-the Alpine rose, the
cinquefoil, and the beauteous Kamchatka
lily-while on the low-lands cluster the
poplar and the silver birch. The pre-
vailing humidity of the Pacific seaboard,
particularly in the Amoor Basin, favors
the development of a splendid yegeta-
tion and on the Usuri the ginseng is
largely cultivated for the Chinese market,
where it fetehes its weight in gold, the
plant being esteemed a sovereign remedy
against ali disorders.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

The Major is here, and comes in every
day to see you. But you must not talk
now, and l must not talk to you You
are to take a good sip of this and then
go to sleep. Not word now-ouly,
Charley, if anything is in your head
about Major Cation and-and I-such
as you've been talking about in your fever,
it's all a mistake, Charley cruel, cruel
mistaken
Well, he found that out in the after
noon of the same day when he saw
Major Galton and his wife--his wife,
who was not Nina Clark. lie discovered
that Minas promise to the Maior-that
promise which had so exalted the Major
and so wrecked the captain-was simply
a promise to set things right with
Cations lady love, who in his absence
was being influenced by an unworthy
rival. Doing this service involved for
Nina the sacrifice of some maiden pride
and reserve, but at the Majors urgent
| petition she did it, and even raised him
to the seventh heaven of happy anticipa-
tion by writing him her promise to de
liver his girl safe into his arms whenever
he came home.
The Captain came to think that he had
jumped at conclusion too quickly,
and that little faith in the girl whose
solemn troth he had would have saved
him a trip to Libby prison, and saved
him also the fever which attacked him
the very day his exchange was effected.
But then where would the Major have
been if the Last Man at Chicamauga had
not lent him horse2- Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
A Clean Crab.

Miss Gordon Cumming reports some of
the 'acute and pithy remarks" of the
native Christian teachers at the Samoan
Islands. Among the rest is a trait of the
crabs of the island, which was brought
forward as an illustration of the COM
mandment to cut off a right hand or
right foot, or to pluck out a right eye,
rather than be led into sin. One of the
teachers told how often he had watched
the maii'O or land-crab, which by day
burrows deep in the soil, but by night
hurries down TO the sea to feed and
drink. 1t is a wondrously clean creature,
and the Samoans declare that if on its
scaward way, as it presses through the
tall grass, it should chance to come in
contact with any filth, which adheres to
its legs, it will deliberately wrench them
off, and thus, self-mutilated, hobbies back
to it hole, there to hide till its legs grow
again.
1t is positively affirmed that this extra
ordinary crab has been known thus to
wrench off its eight legs in succession,
and then drag itself home with she great
est difficulty by means of its nippers.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
Indian Ball.

'The game is not made up of mines, but
of sides, and has twenty-five Indians on
each side. The Cherokee Indians will
have the right side of their faces painted
black and will carry spoon or stick,
something similar to a Lacrosse stick.
The Choctaws will have the same make
up excepting that the left side of their
faces will be painted red or yellow.
When they get on the grounds, Snake
Puppy, Chief of the Cherokees, and Lone
Wolf, Chief of the Choctaws will toss
up to see who will throw the ball Both
sides take their position at either end of
the grounds, with board about fifteen
feet in height behind them. This is
what they call the goal-just like game
of football in this part of the country.
The chief who has won the toss will take
his stand about an equal distance from
both sides, and will toss the ball in the
air and give whoop to notify the men
to start for the ball. They all make a
rush, and as they are swift runners they
generally meet about where the ball lies,
and as they cannot touch the ball with
their hands they use their spoons, and
when one man clutches the ball he holds
the spoon high in the air and makes a
terrible race, with the remaining forty
nine players in hot pursuit, beating him
over the head and shoulders with their
spoons in order to gain possession of the
ball. When the possessor of the ball
reaches spot with a clear field he
throws the ball, and if there is not some
man who will throw his spoon in the air
and catch it, the ball strikes the goal,
and the men retire to their places for an
other inning. "-St. Louis Globe Democrat
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
Car Alexander has suddenly found a

Car Alexander has suddenly found a
diversion very soothing to his disordcred
nerves. A short time ugo the complaint
reached his ear that the carp and pike in
the ponds of Gatshina were multiplying
too fast. The Car resolved to occupy
his leisure hours with fishing. While at
first only sport to him it has now become
a confirmed habit Indefatigably he sits
on the bank with fishing rod and waits
patiently for bite.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

The Atlanta Constitution thinks "there
there can be no doubt that the discoy-
cries and inductions of the present age
have thrown new light on the physi-
ology of food. 1t is a happy though.
that some time in the future mans
cook will be his doetor-that he can pre-
vent as we'll as cure his ailment, prolono
his life, by securing a good cook. The
cook and the physician have both killed
their thousands in the past, and if they
come to be the benefactors of humanity
by uniting their best efforts, and pave
the way to the millennium, they will
certainly atone for much of their mis-
conduct in the past"
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

Miss Florent Macnaghton, who lives
ihthe north of reland was recently try
ing to persuade a fisherman to become a
teetotaler. He told her he would do so
II she would swim the bay between
Blackrock and Port BallantrIe. Moth
ing daunted, Miss .Iacnaghton swan the
bay, which is mile across, and now the
fisherman is a teetotaler and has signed
the pledge. That's cold water girl.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
RATES oE ADVERTISING,
IT'S BETTER NOT TO KNOW.

The hand Of mercy lights the past,
But hides the future ill;
1t tempers every stormy blast,
And bids us onward still.
Whatever cloud may darlly rise
Or storm may wildly blow,
Whatever path before us lies,
'Tis better not to know.
Our friends may falter one by one
And leave US to our fate,
II but the staff we lean upon
May still support our weight
Unconquered by dream Of ill;
Unburdened as we go,
The storm may break beyond, but still,
'Tis better not to know.
If faith in human constancy
Be but a dream at best;
If falsehood lurk where love should be,
Yet in that dream I'm blest;
If warning of a coming wrong
Cannot avert the blow;
If knowledge fail to make me strong.
IT'S better not to know.
And if within my brothers heart
A buried hatred lies;
If friendship be an acted part,
His smile cold Disguise
The knowledge would each blessing dim
And not boon bestow-
All leave me still my trust in him,
'Tis better not to know.
d. Hdughton, in Current.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

Dan Emmett, the father of modern negro
minstrelsy, is now selling milk for liv-
ing In Chicago He is genial old man
of seventytwo, who entertains his
friends with interesting "reminiscences.
Occasionally he blacks up and gives them
taste of what negro minstrclsy was be-
fore it degenerated into burlesque opera
and male ballet business. Emmett's
fame will rest on the authorship OF
"Dixie, which he wrote to please some
professional friends IN New York, never
dreaming that it would become ma
tional air
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

There is said to be man in Lcadville,
Col, who can tell, by the tingling sensa-
tion in his fingers, when he walks over a
body of ore. He is a living mineral
detector. His powers are said to have
been thoroughly tested, and he has
earned large sums by his peculiar gifts,
but his fond ess for gambling keeps him
moor
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

The noble red man in the West is an
enthusiastic gambler. The Winnemucca
(Nevada) Saeer State says: "a band OF
Shoshones arrived here few days age
with several hundred dollars for the pur.
pose of engaging in gambling bout with
the Piutes. Usually the Shoshones take
away more money than they bring with
them, but this time the rule was reversed,
and they lost all their coin aud heir
blankets.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

The New York Financial Chronicle,
with estimates which appear to be care
fully conservative, places the present
population of the country at 1913, $3.50.
the seven years since the last census it
places the increase by births at 7, 372, All,
and by immigration at 3,793, OO2, max
ing total gain of II, 1875, ,473. With a
corresponding increase we shall have
considerably over sc, 600, 900 of people
when the next census is taken.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

Perhaps one of the most primitive Of
independent Kingdoms is the little island
OF Johanna, in the Comoro group. The
Sultan boards any ship that may call
there, aud endeavors to secure the wash
ing for his wives, whilst the Prime Min
lister poddlos coeoanuts and bananas.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

It is n curious fact that this country
exported abroad 175, s3e, 900 pounds of
sugar last year, and 25s, 900, 900 pounds
the year before, notwithstanding we do
not produce more than onc-eighth of the
sugar we consume.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

The floating island on Lake Derwen {
water, England, has again made its ap-
pearance. II came TO the surface of the
water year or two ago near Lodore,
after complete submersion for nearly
three years. The cause of the phenom-
enon has never been satisfactorily ex.
plained.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

In one pew in church at Des Moines,
Iowa, sit the widows of seven clergy
men; and yet there are only two women
in the pew. One Of them is the "relict'
of three, and the other the surviving
partner of four divines.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

The nominal cost of railway construc-
tion in the United States has been swollen
inordinately, of course, by the stock
watering" process. Apart from this form
ofinaation, however, the 125, 900 miles
ofrailway in this country have been put
down at very reasonable figures compared
with the cost of construction in Europe.
We can see this the more clearly in the
following table, prepared by an English
exchange
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

Dakota among the States and Territories
stands sixth in the number of bushels of
wheat produced. Only eleven States
raise more oats, sixteen have more
schools, fourteen more newspapers, and
but twelve have more miles of railroad.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05

PROSPECTS SPOILED AS USUAL.
They thought to have a cottage neat
With honeysuckles twining,
And live in lovers transports sweet.
All other cares resigning.
The goal of peace they thought to win
And happily through life to jog, .,.- 81
And so they might had it not been 20 s
For papa and the dog. -
-Merchdnt I'rdreler.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-10-05
HUMOR OF THE DAY.

A genuine m-bug-The locust.
A half loaf is better than no vacation.
Inter Ocean.
1t is queer that Queen Victoria did not
confer the Order of the Bath on some of
Buffalo Bills Indians. PittSbHrg ChrOp-
ile.
Advice to young ladies who are setting
their caps: Use percussion caps so that
the pop may be heard. - Neo Harea
Nclos.
When girl pays her husbands railroad
fare on their bridal trip, its pretty good
example of loves transport. rt.-Mercddat
IraUeler.
The doctors tax their patients
When they their bills display;
Folks tax the doctors patience
When those bills they will not pay.
-GooddlpS Sun.
The hottest article of mans attire are
his suspenders, But, OH how much
hotter and more uncomfortable he feels
when they happen to give way in public.
darlington Free Press.
:" The gentleman who is about to
shoot" said the master of ceremonies
at target practice, sis famous French
dueTist. Then the frightened crowd got
right in front of the target and began TO
breathe easy.-Ne,o York Sun.
"Young man," said the old deacon
solemnly, "do you realize that when you
retire at night you may be called before
morning dawns" 81 hope so; ''I'm a
young doctor, and 1 need encouragement
of some kind.-T'eras SVtings
"No," said old Bill Squeezers, who
was down from Bodie the other day.
II didn't go to Judge Podger's we'd
ding. The notice said No cards, and
I'm blamed if / can fool away whole
evening where there's no chance of a
little four-bit ante. - -Sda,o Ilr--- a.--- ssIs
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
A DECISION
In the White Pine County Bond I'm.
junction Case.

In the White Pine County Bond In.
junction Case.
This case was brought BY ]. B. Mathew
son, as q tax payer, to restrain the County
Commissioners OF White Pine county
from issuing bonds to pay for building q
Courthouse and County Hospital at Ely.
"a directed by an Act Of the last Legisla-
ture.
The case was heard on q motion to
dissolve the injunction and q demurrer TO
the complaint, and was argued before
Judge Fitzgerald the larger part OF last
week by Messrs. Baker Il Wines and
Henry Rives, attorneys for the plaintiff.
and District Attorney Love mi A.. E.
Cheney. Esq, attorneys for the County
Commissioners.
Many legal questions were involved. and
a large number OF authorities we're cited
and examined. At an early hour yester-
day Judge Fitzgerald rendered his docis-
ION, sustaining the demurrer, dissolving
the Injunction, and giving the defendants
judgment for their costs.
The Court met At an early hour, so that
the decision could be announced in time
to have the result sent by stage to the
commissioners, who met at Hamilton yes
terday, and who, no doubt, Immediately
upon receipt Of tho decision will issue
the bonds. and the building OF the new
county buildings at Ely will be proceeded
will at once.
Judge Fitzgerald said he had not had
time to write an opinion in the case, as he
had to leave for Elko ct once. and the
case demanded an early decision. That
while there were defects in the Bond Act,
he did not consider them of sufficient i'm
portance to warrant him in declaring the
Act unconstitutional, and be therefore held
that the Act was valid, especially that por.
ton referring to the issuing of the bonds;
that upon the question OF whether q single
tax payer could maintain this kind OF an
action. the authorities were every conflict
ing. and 1t was impossible to say how the
Supreme Court would hold, but he was
inclined to the view that the action could
be maintained.
Itis probable that an appeal will be taken,
but Ely has scored the fret knock.down
in the fight against Hamilton for the
county seat.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
Items of Interest Clipped from tine
white Pine News Of April 2.

Items Of Interest Clipped from the
white Pine News Of April 2.
The Observation-Disclosures Company have
commenced hauling ore to the mill on
Steptoe Greek.
The Argus Mining Company shipped
this week through Wells, Fargo d Co.'s
express, two bars OF bullion valued at
1894.
Rsnchers are complaining of dry
weather. They say that unless we have
more snow the grass will be very thin the
coming Summer.
The residents down at the Argus and
Monitor mills will petition the Board OF
Commissioners at their next meeting for q
school district. They are entitled to it.
A. G. Cleveland passed through for
home last Saturday. He took with him
Leon the fine Norman stallion. The
horse weighs l, 600 and is a thing of beauty
to look at.
A gentleman who came in from Eureka
a few days ago informs us that $50, Q0O
would not pay the Indebtedness Of the
late White Pine Stage line. II this be
true-and the gentleman who told us is in
q position to know-it will take some acute
fnanciering for the new corporation to
pay up that debt in the next few years..
There are two baseball clubs in Taylor,
and they have been practicing of and on
for Q couple OF weeks. The intention was
TO play 8 match game e Sunday, but as
| two-thirds of both mines have either an arm
in a sling, a broken nose or closed eyes
lust now, it ia not safe to predict when
all the members will be in trim for a con-
test.
A friend writes us from Hamilton, that
ii is current there that e. N. Robinson,
of the Sweetwater Company, made $3.50,
600 last Winter--in New York. II he did
he will spend it like a Prince, and when il
ia gone he will return to White Pine and
raise double that amount on a Stafford
boom.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
Fares and

We are indebted to j. l.. Fast. Genera
Freight, Passenger and Ticket Agent al
Pslisade, for the following in regard to
fares and freights. He says:
Passenger rates remain substantially the
same as heretofore, except commercial
rates. which are withdrawn. I also note
a few reductions for points East. Ali in.
terstate special rates are withdrawn.
Special rates within the State remain in
force.
On ore rates. Palisade TO Reno; grain
rates, Wells, Deeth and Halleck : o Pail.
SADIE, remain the same.
Freight rates from San Francisco, Sac.
ramento and other California terminals,
remain the same as heretofore,
From Ogden / note the following reduc.
lions: Less than carload lots, per 100
pounds, as follows:
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
LOCAL AND ormEs sors.
scraps from n Notebook OI she
SenefmeI's R~eporser.

scraps rom Ia Notebook OI she
SensineI's Reporter.
Flint-locks "a miser's hair.
Legal tender--s lawyers clerk.
Yesterdays quotation Of silver. so 94k.
The price OF silver continues to decline.
1t is wise stock that knows its own par.
Confidence men make good wages in Los
Angeles.
The Interstate Commerce Act takes
effect to-day.
Portland, Oregon, has organized . Stock
and Mining Board.
The public debt was decreased about
twelve millions during March.
Good counsel bestowed upon fools does
rather provoke than satisfy them.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Godfrey left yester-
day for q months visit at the Bay.
j. Carothers and wife arrived here yes
terday from Taylor, White Pine county.
The saddest case Of intoxication occurred
on Wall street recently. Money got tight.
There is q founding asylum in Moscow
where 5000 foundlings are received each
year.
Mrs. d. Mannheim is Just in receipt OF
some ladies' fine hats, trimmed and I'M
trimmed.
The most successful real estate firm in
Lincoln, Nebraska, is composed entirely
Of women.
Judge Fitzgerald left yesterday morning
for Elko, and will open court there this
morning.
ITnttnA Qkataa MLt N.tf1- r..
ginia city, is expected here on this even.
ing's train.
1t is the man with the pig eyes. the mule
jaw, the big mouth and the wart on his
nose that moves the world.
There are now thirty. three hotels build
ing in Los Angeles county. ranging in
price from $50. 900 to $500, 900.
George W. Peltier, OF Tuscarors. who has
been visiting here for q couple Of days,
left for home yesterday morning.
The Hooks and Knicks Fire Company
will hold o meeting this evening. A full
attendance OF members is requested.
The drummers have beaten the various
State Governments that tried TO tax them,
and have now tackled" the railroads.
A resident Of E~atonton, Georgia, has
prepared and furnished q large and costly
cyclone pit near the back door of his resi-
dence.
The Massachusetts, Supreme Court has
decided that 1t ia not a libel on a caterer
to say that a particular dinner furnished
by him Is bad.
Ex-senator Fair passed west last Friday
on his return from New York. He says
the sale Of his California railroad has not
yet been contaminated.
Sir Henry Tichborne comes Of age in
May next and enters upon the possession
OF his estates, which will bring him in
some S45, 900 q year.
Ildus Roberts and Robert Burney, two
incendiaries, who destroyed property In
East Portland, Oregon, nave been SEN
fenced to the penitentisry.
When O Dakota minister gives out a
notice OF some church meeting, he adds
10 the traditional formula. "God willing"
the words land q blizzard not preventing"
There is much disappointment here be-
cause the Southern Pacific Company has
not reduced fares between Palisade and
San Francisco. II was thought, under the
new law, that fares would be reduced 10
at least $40 between the above named
points.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
lust w hat You want.

P. H. HUI is just in receipt of a large
lot OF glassware and crockery. Also, q
fine assortment of library and parlor
lamps-the inest ever brought to the
market. Also, q nice assortment Of silk
plush cabinet frames, and frame mould
ings. Also, carpets, oilcloth and mating,
bird cages. He has also just been made
agent for the celebrated light-running
domestic" sewing machines, which are
now on exhibition at his store on South
Main street. They are Of all sizes and all
prices.
Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-04-05
Chinese Laundr, men a Nui.auc.
IsPEoIAL TO -HE sKNrINEL,

GAN FRANCISCO, April A. The Superior
oour' rendered an interesting decision to.
day regarding the maintenance Of Chinese
'aundries in this city. The case was that
OF q. Bare against s. and Nathaniel Nor.
riS ct al to recover 81. 0 DAMAGE, al.
.esea 70 nave been caused by defendants
senants, who were Chinese laundrymen,
aha VINO were, plaintiff claimed, by their
sys'e'n OF washing. q great nuisance to the
neisnoornood. Plaintiff asked that a
restraining order be issued TO prevent the
nuisance from being continued. The
Oourt reserved Its d%ecision regarding the
question OF damages, but granted the
petition Tor q restraining order, directing
1t to the Chinese tenants alone.